@Andreas

Obviously there are no similarities between the X1000 and the Pegasos2 whatsoever, if anything at all you could say that they both represents a doomed CPU architecture for the desktop market. Little girls cell phones runs in circles around the old €1000+ Sam440 systems, the Sam460 doesn't even reach the old Pegasos2 performance AFAIK (and lacks all kinds of stable drivers), not that it matters, it has already came as far as it could get. OS4 is shrinking, the lead OS developer asks community members for aid in developing the OS(!!). Is the twin brothers even around there anymore, or are they just hoping to cash in some Timberwolf bounty money before they leave permanently? The next step along this line for A-eon would be to have community members come over to the factory to solder together their own systems, putting up their own money at risk. The latter is of course already in place with the pre-payment scheme, they just need to follow it through all the way. The X1000 can only be afforded if you sell your first-born, it competes with 2005 level HW in performance, it's not self-sustaining, as a "product" (which it obviously isn't) it can't live or breathe by itself. There are AmigaOne XE owners still using their systems (although they probably die off at an increasing pace by now). If the X1000 follows the same pattern, these 2005 level X1000's will be what any "high-end" OS4 users remaining in 2020 will be using (all 58 of them). It can't play the HD media we have today, and it sure as hell won't play whatever will be there in the future. And they will probably still wait for true SMP. And for some miracle to happen for PPC, so that Amiga can make the comback the world has been waiting for. Everyone that isn't blind can see the poor situation it's in, and the complete lack of a future it has laid out in front of it. I just hope that Trevor Dickinson uses the money he scores from this to create a "amigaone Y2000", with a "Yorro" busboard ("What is Y?") based upon some deprecated USB1.0 bus with a $2 chip or whatever ("Woah, think about what this could mean for OS4?"), costing at least, hmm... FOUR thousand dollars (if not Five? Hmm, some will pay anything, just collect their money and leave!). Then the last few OS4 users would drop off in a few years, and it would finally be over. They have been working hard along this path for many years now, striving persistently, with one insanity after another. A new "most ambitious project", yet another PPC machine with *terrible* bang for the buck ratio, drivers developed after 2 years, etc; yes, that would be the final death blow, the mercy kill to end the OS4 misery.